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Software Engineer (Lens Engine, C++) Interview Experience - Los Angeles, California

January 1, 2019

Positive ExperienceGot Offer

Process

I was first screened with a phone interview. Then, there was another phone interview where I was asked questions about my skills and background. Finally, I completed a live coding interview. During this interview, I was asked more questions regarding my skills and programming knowledge, then provided a task to complete on HackerRank.

The entire process was very smooth, and my interviewers were friendly, encouraging, and knowledgeable.

Questions

How would you go about creating a caching algorithm in C++?

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Interview Statistics

The following metrics were computed from 1 interview experience for the Snap Software Engineer (Lens Engine, C++) role in Los Angeles, California.

Success Rate

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Pass Rate

Snap's interview process for their Software Engineer (Lens Engine, C++) roles in Los Angeles, California is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.

Experience Rating

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Candidates reported having very good feelings for Snap's Software Engineer (Lens Engine, C++) interview process in Los Angeles, California.

Snap Work Experiences

Kind Coworkers, Terrible Leadership

Manager, Software Engineering • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

February 24, 2023

Pros: Competitive base salary. Stock price is currently in the single digits, so if you join now, there's a chance for upside. Good benefits. Many coworkers are genuinely kind and helpful people.

Cons: Incompetent senior leadership team that takes no responsibility for their decisions, which have now impacted the revenue of the business and the plummeting stock price. There is no work/life balance. They took a total 180 on supporting remote work and then flip-flopped a few months later to require RTO 4 days/week with insufficient notice. The review/bonus structure is laughable. All-hands meetings are heavily scripted and used to gaslight employees.

Kind Coworkers, Terrible Leadership

Manager, Software Engineering • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

February 24, 2023

Pros: Competitive base salary. Stock price is currently in the single digits, so if you join now, there's a chance for upside. Good benefits. Many coworkers are genuinely kind and helpful people.

Cons: Incompetent senior leadership team that takes no responsibility for their decisions, which have now impacted the revenue of the business and the plummeting stock price. There is no work/life balance. They took a total 180 on supporting remote work and then flip-flopped a few months later to require RTO 4 days/week with insufficient notice. The review/bonus structure is laughable. All-hands meetings are heavily scripted and used to gaslight employees.

Everything is great

MLE/RS • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

February 22, 2022

Pros: Pay and culture are great!

Cons: Work-life balance is bad for some teams.

Everything is great

MLE/RS • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

February 22, 2022

Pros: Pay and culture are great!

Cons: Work-life balance is bad for some teams.

Too many idiots around

Mechanical Engineer • Former Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

October 8, 2019

Pros: Nice location at Ven Beach. It was good when I worked on the first version of Spectacles.

Cons: Over time, too many outsiders have been brought in, leaving no opportunities to grow.

Too many idiots around

Mechanical Engineer • Former Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

October 8, 2019

Pros: Nice location at Ven Beach. It was good when I worked on the first version of Spectacles.

Cons: Over time, too many outsiders have been brought in, leaving no opportunities to grow.

Kind Coworkers, Terrible Leadership

Manager, Software Engineering • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

February 24, 2023

Pros: Competitive base salary. Stock price is currently in the single digits, so if you join now, there's a chance for upside. Good benefits. Many coworkers are genuinely kind and helpful people.

Cons: Incompetent senior leadership team that takes no responsibility for their decisions, which have now impacted the revenue of the business and the plummeting stock price. There is no work/life balance. They took a total 180 on supporting remote work and then flip-flopped a few months later to require RTO 4 days/week with insufficient notice. The review/bonus structure is laughable. All-hands meetings are heavily scripted and used to gaslight employees.

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Kind Coworkers, Terrible Leadership
Manager, Software Engineering • Current Employee
Los Angeles, California, United States
February 24, 2023
Pros: Competitive base salary. Stock price is currently in the single digits, so if you join now, there's a chance for upside. Good benefits. Many coworkers are genuinely kind and helpful people.
Cons: Incompetent senior leadership team that takes no responsibility for their decisions, which have now impacted the revenue of the business and the plummeting stock price. There is no work/life balance. They took a total 180 on supporting remote work and then flip-flopped a few months later to require RTO 4 days/week with insufficient notice. The review/bonus structure is laughable. All-hands meetings are heavily scripted and used to gaslight employees.

Everything is great

MLE/RS • Current Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

February 22, 2022

Pros: Pay and culture are great!

Cons: Work-life balance is bad for some teams.

5.0
Everything is great
MLE/RS • Current Employee
Los Angeles, California, United States
February 22, 2022
Pros: Pay and culture are great!
Cons: Work-life balance is bad for some teams.

Too many idiots around

Mechanical Engineer • Former Employee

Los Angeles, California, United States

October 8, 2019

Pros: Nice location at Ven Beach. It was good when I worked on the first version of Spectacles.

Cons: Over time, too many outsiders have been brought in, leaving no opportunities to grow.

2.0
Too many idiots around
Mechanical Engineer • Former Employee
Los Angeles, California, United States
October 8, 2019
Pros: Nice location at Ven Beach. It was good when I worked on the first version of Spectacles.
Cons: Over time, too many outsiders have been brought in, leaving no opportunities to grow.

Snap Interview Questions

LRU Cache

Design a data structure that acts as a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. Implement methods to get and put key-value pairs, evicting the least recently used entry when the cache is full.

Minimum Window Substring

Find the smallest substring within a larger string that contains all the characters of a target string. You need to locate the minimum window that satisfies this condition.

StringsSliding Windows

Word Ladder

Transform one word into another, one letter at a time, using only words from a given dictionary. Find the shortest sequence of words to reach the target.

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